With NativeScript 4.0, developers can use any View as the root of an application, enabling more commonly-used navigation patterns and allowing the creation of more optimized user interface trees.

Additionally, the use of Modal Views is more flexible, removing the previous limit of showing only one modal at a time. While many user experience designers may not recommend this approach, it is now possible to render a modal dialog from inside another modal dialog.

The project also includes utilities for generating all versions of application assets, generating icons and splash screens based on a single high-resolution image. This release also improves NativeScript’s integration with webpack.

NativeScript gets widely used within the Angular community, but that is changing. While React users tend to use React Native, other frameworks are offering ways to work with NativeScript. For example, the NativeScript-Vue 1.0 plugin was recently released, integrating Vue and NativeScript to allow developers to build native mobile apps using Vue.

NativeScript provides a mechanism for web developers to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps without web views by using modern JavaScript or TypeScript to get native UI and performance while using traditional web development skills.

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